Woolf, Adeline Virginia, 1882-1941 (novelist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1882 - 1941
Sphere of activity
Novelist, essayist, biographer and critic
Relationships
Daughter of Leslie and Julia Stephen; sister of Vanessa Bell; married 1912 Leonard Woolf.
Biography
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born at Kensington on 25 January 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen. She was a key figure in the Bloomsbury circle, and married one of its number, Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-1969), in 1912. She wrote novels, including Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the lighthouse (1927), and critical essays. She drowned herself on 28 March 1941, following a nervous collapse.
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Article by David Bradshaw: British Writers and Anti-Facism in the 1930s in Woolf Studies Annual, Part 1 in Vol.3, 1997 and Part 2 in Vol. 4, 1998, 1997
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369/C1
Scope and Contents
2 articles with 2 covering letters
Dates:
1997
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Bloomsbury: Papers Relating to Bloomsbury
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BLM
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Bloomsbury figures for whom there is not an existing collection, or relating to more than one of the Bloomsbury collections.
Contains BLM/1-19, and publications.
Dates:
1900 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Contract for publishing Vanessa Bell's wood cuts, 1917-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/AG/2/3
Scope and Contents
Draft typescript contract, annotated by Clive Bell, between Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell for the publishing of a book of her wood cuts.
Dates:
1917-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Letters by persons still living may only be read with the written permission of the author. The correspondence between Mrs. Garnett and her late husband, David Garnett, may only be read by permission of the family. For further information, please contact the Archivist.
File
Correspondence between E.M. Forster and Charles Mauron, 1925 - 1966
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/18/365
Scope and Contents
17 autograph letters, signed, 7 typed letters, signed, (1 signed also by Alice Mauron, 3 with manuscript additions by Marie Mauron) and 1 typed postcard, signed, from Charles Mauron to E.M. Forster. 1925-[65].3 autograph letters, signed, 1 typed letter, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed, from Marie Mauron to E.M. Forster. 1940-63.Photocopies of 72 autograph letters, signed, 9 typed letters, signed, 4 autograph postcards, signed, and 4 envelopes from E.M. Forster....
Dates:
1925 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Correspondence between Virginia Woolf and REF, 1919 - 1934
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/3/194
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter signed from Virginia Woolf to REF. 17 Oct. 1921.
27 autograph letters signed from REF to Virginia Woolf. [1919]-1934.
Autograph manuscript notes by REF, 'Visions and ideas'. No date.
Dates:
1919 - 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Correspondence from E.M. Forster to Virginia Woolf, 1915 - 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/18/609
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of 3 autograph letters, signed, 1 autograph manuscript postscript and typescript transcripts of 38 autograph letters, signed, and 3 autograph postcards, signed, from E.M. Forster.
To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 18/Woolf, V.
Dates:
1915 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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File
Correspondence from Leonard and Virginia Woolf to Lydia Lopokova Keynes, 1933 - 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LLK/5/226
Scope and Contents
2 autograph letters, signed, and 2 autograph postcards, signed.
Dates:
1933 - 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Correspondence from Virginia Woolf, 1923 - 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/WJHS/1/108
Scope and Contents
6 autograph letters, signed, 2 autograph postcards, signed, and 2 typed letters, signed.
Dates:
1923 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
Fonds
For Intellectual Liberty: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369
Scope and Contents
Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...
Dates:
1936-1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
File
'Freshwater, a Comedy', 1900 - 1976
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BLM/16
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript play with photocopied covering letter concerning publication, 1976.
Dates:
1900 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
GHWR at an exhibition of work by Ramsey and Muspratt, 1930 - 1976
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/5/228-34
Scope and Contents
Photographs of GHWR at an exhibition of work by Ramsey and Muspratt, 1976, including in conversation with R. F. Kahn, Joan Robinson and Lettice Ramsey; also, portrait photographs of Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf and Angelica Garnett, 1932, GHWR and Norman Higgins, 1930s, all by Ramsey and Muspratt. The photographs were taken mainly Cambridge. Modern reprints, several mounted on card, 16.2 x 12.6 cm (GHWR/5/228, 231), 12.6 x 16.2 cm (GHWR/5/229-30), 26.8 x 21.2 cm (photograph 25 x 19.9 cm)...
Dates:
1930 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
File
GHWR, Raymond Mortimer, Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Lydia Lopokova Keynes, 1922 - 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/5/217
Scope and Contents
Modern reprint of a photograph of GHWR and Raymond Mortimer standing, Leonard and Virginia Woolf seated in front of them and Lydia Lopokova Keynes sitting on the ground in front of them, all in a group pose outside. Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.6 cm. Sleeve 116.
Dates:
1922 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
File
Journal, 9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/22
Scope and Contents
The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1925-III, 1926-I' and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was living at 23 Campden Hill Square, London. Diary entries include passages on: /8r. a biography of Thomas Hardy; /10r-11r. the death and funeral of his uncle Hamo Thornycroft; /16r-16v, /117r. Robert Graves; /39v-41v. entries concerning his War experience; /48r-48v. on meeting Sean O'Casey; /51. Virginia Woolf; /77r-109r. on the coal miner's strike; and frequent...
Dates:
9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
File
Julian Fry to Virginia Woolf, 1937-03-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/14/9
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter signed. The file also contains part of an undated letter from Julian Fry to his grandmother, with notes by REF.
Dates:
1937-03-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Lecture on Virginia Woolf, 1941-03 - 1941-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/6/31
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript draft of Rede Lecture on Virginia Woolf, delivered before the University on 29 May 1941.
To request this document, please use the following call mark: vol. 6/11
Dates:
1941-03 - 1941-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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File
Letter from Isobel Grundy to GHWR, 1983-12-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/3/181A
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter signed, enclosing 3 colour photographs of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's homes, at Asheham and Rodmell, West Sussex, taken on 28 May 1994.
Dates:
1983-12-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
File
Letter from Virginia Stephen (later Virigina Woolf) to Brynhild Olivier, 1911-09-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/POP/1/WoolfV
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter signed.
Dates:
1911-09-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
Item
Letter from Virginia Woolf, 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8900/5/5/9
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Minutes, accounts, lists of books recommended and considered, letters from English and French committee members and prizewinners, and newscuttings. Letters from prizewinners: Percy Lubbock, Mary Webb (6), Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, H.M. Tomlinson, Charles Morgan (7), Stella Gibbons/Webb (4), Elizabeth Jenkins (2), L.H. Myers (2), Margaret Lane, Richard Church (2), and Robert Graves. Letters from French prizewinners: Joseph Kessel, François Mauriac, Marion Gilbert (2), étienne Burnet...
Dates:
1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Letter from Virginia Woolf to Ka Cox, 1936-05-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB/Xg/7
Scope and Contents
1 typed letter signed from Virginia Woolf to Ka Cox.
Dates:
1936-05-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Letter from Virginia Woolf to Raymond Mortimer, 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BLM/7
Scope and Contents
1 typed letter signed. The letter refers to the Woolf's move from Tavistock Square to Mecklenburgh Square. The file also contains a typescript covering note by G. H. W. Rylands, 5 Feb 1973.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Letters from Anne Thackeray Ritchie to Vanessa Bell and others, 1916-11-16 - 1919-01-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/521
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter signed to Clive Bell. Undated.
1 autograph letter signed to Vanessa Bell with part addressed to Jack Hills. 16 Nov. 1916
1 autograph letter signed to Jack Hills with envelope. 17 Nov. 1916.
2 autograph letters signed to Virginia Woolf. 8 Jan. [pre 1919] and 1 Jan. 1919.
Photocopies of 5 autograph letters signed to Vanessa Bell. c. 1917-1918.
Dates:
1916-11-16 - 1919-01-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Letters from Virginia Woolf, 1929-10-29 - 1932-01-29
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RBB/3/Woolf
Scope and Contents
3 autograph letters signed from Woolf to RBB, with envelopes.
Dates:
1929-10-29 - 1932-01-29
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Letters from Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Thoby Stephen and Madge Vaughan, 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/686/2
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of 1 autograph letter signed to Clive Bell. [Dec. 1937]. Photocopy of 1 autograph letter signed to Roger Fry. 17 Oct. 1921. Two sets of photocopies of 21 autograph letters signed and a photocopy of 1 typed letter signed to Thoby Stephen, [c.1896-1903]. Also photocopies of 1 autograph letter signed from G. Lytton Strachey to Thoby Stephen (23 Feb. 1904) and 1 autograph letter signed from Henry James to Thoby Stephen (16 Sept. 1904). One set of the 21 letters from VW to TS...
Dates:
1937
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
File
Letters from Virginia Woolf to Dadie Rylands, 1923 - 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/3/454A
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of 17 autograph letters signed, 1923-1941, and typescript transcripts of 7 letters, 1928-34.
Dates:
1923 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
File
Letters from Virginia Woolf to Frances and Ralph Partridge, 1925-06-29 - 1933-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/6/1/209
Scope and Contents
4 autograph letters signed. The file includes 1 typed letter signed from Joanne Trautmann (Assistant Editor of Virginia Woolf's letters), 10 Jul. 1973.
Dates:
1925-06-29 - 1933-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Certain letters are closed under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998) because they contain sensitive information about living individuals. Researchers may apply in writing to the Archivist to see the closed material, stating the intended use and precise nature of the information requested. The Archivist and Frances Partridge's Literary Executor will then consider whether non-sensitive parts of the letter may be made available, and they will consult the author if necessary. Please be aware that this decision may take several weeks and may incur photocopying charges. A statement to this effect is given with each closed file.